ENGLISH

Happiness, Morality, and Freedom

By Arthur Melnick

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2014
ISBN
900428320X, 9789004283206
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
931 kB (953278 bytes)
Series
Studies in Moral Philosophy
Pages
0\224
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-10-18 00:05:38

Description

To be happy is to be emotionally and evaluatively satisfied with one’s life according to a standard of satisfaction one can claim as one’s own as a reasoning being. Since there is no definitive proof of what the standard of satisfaction is, being open to the devising and testing of standards by others is part of claiming one’s own standard as a reasoning being. This open-ness is equivalent to being open to and hence respecting and caring for the pursuit of happiness of others. Since such respect and care is what it is to be moral, it follows that one cannot be happy without being moral.

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